Two more teams have added their names to the list of qualifiers since our last reminder. Argentina won the intercontinental play-off between the third-placed team from CONMEBOL and the fourth-placed CONCACAF side, while the Netherlands emerged victorious from the European play-offs, which featured semi-finals and a final, all played over two legs.

There are now just four places to be filled to complete the 24-team line-up for the tournament, which takes place next June and July. Three of them will go to African representatives and the fourth to the winners of the Oceania qualifying competition, at which point things will start to get very serious, indeed.